Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sign inside the Combat /one Smoke Shop proclaims "We cater orgies" The sales clerk be hind the counter will not discuss the new law saying he does not want to call public attention to any Ioopholes. This smoke shop will be one of the hardest since virtually all of its stock is the kind of paraphernalia that has been outlawed...
Although Bertolino plans to cut down the size of his paraphernalia counter by March, he says the fantastic array of football-shaped power hitters. onyx, wood and corncob papers: mirrors for cutting cocaine: glass pipes tiny spoons scales brass razor electric water pipes smoke v pipes and ginseng powder will provide ample loopholes for storeowners who want to work around the law. Bertolino has added cigarettes to his inventors which he says will probably allow him to carry rolling papers rolling machine and ginseng powder...
...same time, the traditional locations for the machines are vanishing. Malt shops and drugstore counters, where people used to put another nickel in so that the music would go round and round, have been hurt by fast-food franchises, which have little use for music. Says Leo Droste, executive vice president of the Amusement and Music Operators Association: "When I was in high school, you could walk into any drugstore and there would be counter machines where you could flip through the choices, look at the records, put in your money, and hear the music. You don't find...
...Union--where apparently high dues had kept membership to about half of all undergraduates--weighs against such a notion, though. "Many men who have no rights to the privileges of the Union are continually seen in the building, particularly in the dining room and at the lunch counter. Members who further this abuse or fail to cooperate in the effort to prevent it are doing as dishonorable an act as the guilty men themselves," he intoned...
...pilots and an equal number of sailors in the use of the equipment. Yet when word of the deal reached Washington, both Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger registered their "strong disappointment" at the decision of the French government. The reason: the sale ran directly counter to a growing sense of alarm in Washington over the arms buildup in Nicaragua. The arsenal is reaching unprecedented proportions for Central America, and has already turned the country into the predominant military power of the region...